Sign up for CNN’s Adulthood, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide has tips to help you make more informed decisions around personal finance, career, wellness and personal connections. Are snacks before bed your vice? Or do you prefer to wait a few hours after you wake up to eat? , according to a new study. The study tracked the portion sizes and eating times of 547 people, in addition to data on their health and weight, over the course of six years.
Those factors could be important for getting a better look at the effects of meal timing, added Alice Lichtenstein, professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University. “I suspect that if they looked more closely at the data, that there would be subgroups may have had a significant effect,” Lichtenstein said. This study was observational, Bennett noted, meaning that they looked at existing patterns for the study instead of making changes to a randomized group.
Grown adults don’t need to eat breakfast unless you’re a lumberjack or Marine or doing labor intensive work before noon, the longer you go without eating after sleep the better…
Intermittent fasting works because it’s a great tool to give you self control over eating throughout the day. For me, it’s an easy way to control overall caloric intake.
You got the headline wrong. Should read - Intermittent fasting proves to be a reliable way to lose weight.